Oculus Quest owners can now sideload SideQuest itself onto the headset, opening up the ability to install content in standalone mode that hasn’t been reviewed by Facebook in any way. Reddit user ballfun used the newly launched SideQuest Android app to prove it was possible to sideload content onto Oculus Quest using another Oculus Quest....
Oculus Quest 2 developers can now enable a new ‘High Frequency Hand Tracking’ mode in their apps, increasing the tracking rate from 30 Hz to 60 Hz. Facebook claims the mode increases hand tracking quality, as well as reducing its end-to-end latency by 10%. Its internal ‘Strike Team’ enabled the new mode in the Tiny...
After The Fall, Vertigo Games’ long-awaited follow-up to Arizona Sunshine, is promising lots of zombies chasing after you when it launches this summer. More importantly, though, the studio says the Oculus Quest version will be able to keep up with them. The standalone version of the shooter was finally confirmed during last week’s Oculus Gaming...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested in a earnings call with investors that consumers aren’t interested in VR headsets with wires. “Some other folks might try to ship something that they claim is higher quality but has a wire, and I just don’t think that consumers are going to want to go for that,” Zuckerberg said...
Facebook’s Q1 2021 non-ads revenue was 2.5x that of Q1 2020 while continuing a trend that suggests Oculus Quest 2 is driving growth in the category after its holiday 2020 debut. The company’s non-advertising revenue in quarter 1 of 2021 was $732 million, up from $297 million in Q1 2020. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors:...
The website for HTC’s upcoming ViveCon event claims the company will reveal “game-changing VR headsets” during next month’s show. Announced earlier in April, ViveCon is a free two-day event running on May 11th and 12th. The company already promised news for the show, and a recent tease suggested we’ll see a new headset revealed too....
Co-op and VR go together like the Oculus Quest 2 and wireless room scale. Check out our list here of the best co-op VR games available on the Quest platform. Oculus Quest 2’s arrival means a large number of original Quest owners will be looking to give, sell, or lend their original headsets with the...
2020 Oculus Launchpad project, The Last Shark, can now be played on Oculus App Lab. It’s brief, but packs some interesting ideas and an emotional gut punch. The Last Shark is a stealth-action game set in a future in which sharks have become all but extinct on Earth. You start out swimming alongside the two...
Looking for a way to install content onto your Oculus Quest that’s not available on the Oculus Store and isn’t approved by Facebook? Here’s our guide to sideloading content on Oculus Quest or Quest 2 using SideQuest. This article was originally published in November 2019 but has been updated and re-published several times, most recently...
SideQuest now offers an Android app for sideloading content to Oculus Quest without a PC involved in the process. The app is now available on Google Play and offers discoverability for both App Lab content as well as other sideloading content that can be installed onto to an Oculus Quest or Quest 2 from a...
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